sahata omaa oksaansa

Finnish

Alternative forms

  • sahata omaa oksaa, sahata oksaa jolla istuu

Verb

sahata omaa oksaansa

  1. (idiomatic) to saw off the branch one is sitting on, shoot oneself in the foot

Conjugation

  • For the verb, see sahata.
  • oksaansa is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases. It also receives a possessive suffix:
Personal/possessive forms for word in phrase
possessor singular plural
1st person oksaani oksaamme
2nd person oksaasi oksaanne
3rd person oksaansa
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